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Most weeks it’s me solo — with the community, working through something together, on the record. Some weeks I’m in conversation with a guest.
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All news →Long-form pieces, thesis videos on the market, and the practical work for artists and collectors.
All episodes →Live Tuesdays, field notes when the news warrants, full episodes most weeks. The artists, gallerists, curators, advisors, and collectors working through it in real time.
Conversations with Derrick Adams, Larry Ossei‑Mensah, Tanya Weddemire, Richard Beavers, Ayesha Selden, Dexter Wimberly, Lester Marks.
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Long-form writing that goes deeper than the feed. Named numbers, close readings of the market, the thinking behind what you’re seeing. Written from inside the field, not about it.
Read the Edit →“Follow the money behind the museum wing, the biennial, the residency, and you learn who the art world is really built to serve. Here is how the funding actually moves.”
Read the essay →October 1–3, Hotel Saint Augustine, Houston. Leave with relationships and a sharper read on the field than any year of scrolling will give you.
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Long-form conversations, thesis videos, and field reports from inside the contemporary art world. Independent art world media for the artists and collectors actually building inside it.
Three rooms, three days. Programming you can plan a week around.
Most weeks it's just me — solo with the community, working through something together, on the record. Some weeks I'm in conversation with a guest.
Watch live →When the field moves enough to warrant a quick note — short, sharp, with the receipts.
All news →Long-form pieces, thesis videos on the market, and the practical work for artists and collectors.
All episodes →
From inside the room. On the record. In plain English. The conversations, the rooms, and the working theories of how careers and collections get built.
Read the long storyDerrick Adams & Dexter Wimberly·Larry Ossei-Mensah·Tanya Weddemire·Lex Marie·Richard Beavers·Dr. Joy Simmons·Ayesha Selden·Lester Marks
Short, on-location dispatches from the fairs, openings, and conversations actually moving the art world — for the audience that wants the floor, not the press release. Open for brand partnership when the fit is right: single-reel takeovers, on-the-ground series sponsorship, or co-presented field coverage.
A conversation with the independent curator on moving careers without signing the check — and the long relationships that make institutions follow you, not the other way.
On the quiet contract between platforms and the brands that fund them — and the difference your audience can smell from across the room.
The infrastructure that built hip hop into a global cultural force has direct parallels for the next generation of artist-led galleries.
A working theory of Houston as the most underestimated art city in the country — and the collectors quietly making it the proof.
Ten essays and counting — profiles, market analysis, criticism, the Houston files. The full archive lives at The Glory Edit.
A curated audience of working artists, active collectors, gallerists, and institutional decision-makers. Sponsorship built around your goals, not a template — four ways to be in the room:
The conversations the art world isn't having anywhere else — on the record, in one room, for three days. Working artists, active collectors, gallerists, and curators. Programmed alongside Untitled Art Houston at the GRB. Limited capacity.
A complete operating system for planning, executing, and selling out your art exhibition — the same one taught inside the Collective.
Most artists are running three distribution channels. There are sixteen. Last night we mapped the full board, found each member’s highest-leverage gap, and drafted the actual move on the page before the session ended.
A space built for artists and collectors — to learn, build, and stay close.
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New conversations, what the field is telling me, and the work I'm watching most closely — sent every week so you stay in the know. Written by Moriah.
Hotel Saint Augustine is a boutique hotel in Houston's Montrose neighborhood, a Bunkhouse Group property whose design and programming sit comfortably alongside the contemporary art world it now hosts.
It's the home venue for GloryLand 2026, the three-day Dear Glory summit October 1-3. The choice was deliberate: the building reads like the kind of space the field's serious working people would gather in voluntarily, not the kind of hotel ballroom an art event has to grit through.
The partnership covers programming hosting, the press / collector dinners, and the on-site experience across all three days of GloryLand.
Untitled Art is the contemporary art fair brand that launched its Houston edition with a direct focus on emerging and mid-career galleries doing serious work outside the usual Miami / New York axis.
Dear Glory co-programs the Education Day at Untitled Art Houston, alongside GloryLand. The collaboration is editorial and curatorial, not just promotional: the conversations on the program are built together, and the fair's gallery slate is referenced directly in the field reports that come out of every fair cycle.
The partnership exists because the fair and the platform are trying to do the same thing from different angles: name the field plainly, give it a record, and put working galleries in front of working collectors.
UOVO is the professional art-storage and services company that has set the museum-grade standard for how serious collections are held in the United States. Climate-controlled facilities, validated environmental systems, integrated transport, conservation coordination, and inventory management for the most important work in the country.
Dear Glory is in active partnership with UOVO. They've worked with us directly: they sent a team to pack and store four large-scale works from Moriah's home, and the experience became the basis for an ongoing editorial conversation about what the back end of the art market actually looks like for collectors and artists who don't normally see it.
Read the full field report: What I learned when UOVO packed up my house →
Paper City Magazine is the long-running Texas publication covering the people, parties, and culture that move the state's cities. For decades, it's been the record of who was in which room and why.
The Dear Glory partnership with Paper City is editorial: shared coverage of GloryLand, joint social and collector reporting, cross-promotion of major Dear Glory moments, and a working alignment on the storyline that Houston is becoming a genuine art capital.
If you've seen a Dear Glory dinner, a GloryLand preview, or a Hotel Saint Augustine moment in Paper City over the last year, that's the partnership at work.
Black Art In America (BAIA) is the platform that, for more than a decade, has been the working record of contemporary Black art in the United States. Founded by Najee Dorsey, it operates as media, gallery, market index, and collector education hub all at once.
BAIA was an early Dear Glory partner during the channel's first growth phase. The alignment was natural: both platforms were building the public-facing infrastructure for a market and a field that the mainstream art press was still catching up on.
The partnership is currently in past tense, but BAIA's work continues to be a reference point on Dear Glory editorial. If you're collecting in this space, BAIA is one of the working resources you should know.
